European Union countries have decided to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover. The bloc has agreed to back a motion for a ban during next week’s meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
This follows the recent news that the United States was pledging their support, [...]

‘‘The Cove,’’ a U.S. film about a controversial annual dolphin hunt at a Japanese town, won the best documentary feature at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards ceremony Sunday in Los Angeles.
Directed by Louie Psihoyos, one of the world’s most prominent still photographers, the film depicts, partly through the use of hidden cameras and microphones, the [...]

The American government announced this week that it will support prohibiting international trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna. In mid-March, representatives from 175 countries will gather in Doha, Qatar, to determine whether to restrict the trade of bluefin tuna,and an array of other imperiled species under CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of [...]

A strong earthquake in Taiwan was reported early Thursday morning. It registered at 6.4 according to the USGS. The earthquake took place in southern Taiwan, 25 miles from T’ai-tung, Taiwan.
Reuters says that there are no initial reports of damage.
Taiwan was hit by a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in September 1999 that killed more than 2,000 people.

A new campaign pushing for comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation in the U.S. is underway. It’s being called the “72 Hours For Clean American Power”, and it wants American people to get in touch with their elected representatives, write letters to newspapers, and spread the word on social media sites.
This is a really cool [...]

Early this morning, a massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck the central area of Chile, with the epicenter just 317 km south-west of the country’s capital of Santiago.
Capital buildings swayed for around 20 seconds, with bridges and homes collaspsing. The death toll is at 122 at this point, but is expected to rise.
A tsunami set off by quake threatened [...]

Over the past two decades, the global economy has witnessed extraordinary technological advances and scientific feats that were previously unimaginable. Money changes hands electronically and complicated business propositions are sent and approved without the hindrance of the postal service. Medical science defies death and disease on a daily basis. The World Wide Web enables instant [...]

Investigators said today in a press conference that trainer Dawn Brancheau died from “multiple traumatic injuries and drowning” after the park’s killer whale pulled her underwater.
They released a statement shortly after an official at SeaWorld Orlando said that the killer whale, Tilikum, is being evaluated and that the theme park will keep the animal. The [...]

The energy-efficient ‘Bloom Box’ power servers at eBay offices in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday is a Silicon Valley startup that is working on a new way to produce cleaner energy.
The company says it has developed a new method of making fuel cells, thus generating electricity through an electrochemical reaction. A single cell can produce about [...]

Alec Baldwin penned an article for the Huffington Post about nuclear power utility reactors.
Baldwin writes, “I started going down to Oyster Creek in 1996. I returned there with a 60 Minutes camera crew a couple of years ago. I have a strong and abiding belief that true knowledge of what does and does not go on [...]